Tom Renner

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No one knows local sports quite like Tom Renner, The Daily Voice's Sports Editor. For 22 years, he covered the field for The Stamford Advocate. He's been in Fairfield County since 1987.

Tom was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Fairfield, CT

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Fairfield Coaches Earn League Honors Fairfield Warde field hockey coach Jody Shannon, Warde boys soccer coach Justin Ottavio and Fairfield Ludlowe girls volleyball coach Chris Skelton were named Coaches of the Year in their sports by the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference. Shannon guided the Mustangs to a 10-5-3-2 record and a runner-up finish in the FCIAC tournament. Warde dropped a 2-1 decision to Fermi in the first round of the Class M tournament. Ottavio's boys soccer team reached the FCIAC final before falling to Staples. The Mustangs went 13-5-3 and lost in the quarterfinals of the Class L tournament. S…

by Tom Renner

01/04/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Tryouts Planned for Boys AAU Teams Connecticut Premier Hoops Development will hold tryouts for its boys AAU teams in January at Holy Trinity Church in Bridgeport. Players in grades 3-8 are invited to participate. The tryout fee is $10. Tryouts are scheduled on Jan. 9, 16 and 23. Boys in grades 3 and 4 will tryout from 8 to 9 a.m. Tryouts for boys in grades 5 and 6 are from 9 to 10:30. For boys in grades 7 and 8 tryouts are 10:30 a.m. to noon. Players are encouraged to attend two tryouts. Holy Trinity is at 4070 Park Ave. Players can register at the tryout. More information is available on the team's website or by calling 203…

by Tom Renner

01/04/2011

Westport, CT

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Westport PAL: Norwalk Tournament Victors The Westport PAL seventh-grade boys basketball team defeated Shelton, 55-40, to win the Norwalk Girls Basketball Association Holiday tournament Sunday at Ben Franklin School. Team members include Graham Gudis, Noah Staffa, Jared Vishno, Daniel Brill, Dylan Dreyfuss, Ryan Angerthal, Connor Chamberlain John Fincher, Jackson Ward and Adam Friedman. Shuan Maloneis the coach, assisted by Jared Vishno. Let us know about your team! Send information and pictures to Tom Renner at [email protected]

by Tom Renner

01/04/2011

Norwalk, CT

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McMahon Flies High at Season's Start Brien McMahons boys basketball team is already looking like a title contender in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference. The Senators are 5-0 for the first time in at least 15 years heading into tonights road contest at Staples. McMahon has knocked off two teams that are perennial playoff qualifiers, Stamford (twice) and Bassick. The other wins came over Greenwich and Fairfield Ludlowe. Its got to be a confidence builder for us, fourth-year coach Mo Tomlin said after the Senators defeated Stamford, 60-59, to win the Kuczo Tournament last week. Were working to get b…

by Tom Renner

01/04/2011

Fairfield, CT

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Future Stars Hosts Basketball Camps Future Stars Basketball will host a camp for players in grades 4 through 8 at Hall Neighborhood House in Bridgeport this month on Saturdays. Former NBA player Frank Oleynick of Fairfield directs the Future Stars camps.The camps are Jan. 8, 15 and 22 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Skill-building and game play are included in each session. The fee is $50. More information is available at the Future Stars website or by calling 203-367-1673. Future Stars will also host an after-school session at St. Thomas Aquinas School in Fairfield in January. More details will be announced soon on the organization's…

by Tom Renner

01/04/2011

Stamford, CT

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Stamford's Joseph Makes NFL Debut Alex Joseph made it to the NFL on Sunday. The former Stamford High star played on a special teams tackle for the San Francisco 49ers in a 38-7 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Joseph, who played for Temple University, signed with San Francisco last week. He had been on the practice squad of the Carolina Panthers. The linebacker was signed as a free agent by the Green Bay Packers and played in all four preseason games. His best one was last, when he had five tackles against Kansas City. After being cut at the end of training camp, he was on the practice squad for the Oakland Raiders. After the…

by Tom Renner

01/03/2011

Darien, CT

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Darien Blue 6th-Graders Fall in Norwalk Final The Darien YMCA Blue sixth-grade basketball team lost to a strong Shelton squad, 61-42, in the finals of the Norwalk Girls Basketball Association Holiday Tournament on Sunday at Ben Franklin School in Norwalk. Charlie Sealy had 12 points to lead Darien, while Casey Brown had nine. Shelton (15-3) led 16-8 after the first quarter and 32-13 at halftime. Darien stayed aggressive throughout the second half and battled Shelton to a draw over the final 16 minutes. Darien Blue, 8-5 overall and 1-2 in the Fairfield County Basketball League, went 3-1 in the Norwalk tournament with wins over Norwalk B…

by Tom Renner

01/03/2011

Norwalk, CT

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Norwalk 8th-Grade Girls Win Holiday Tourney Norwalk eighth-grade girls basketball coach Jeff Iannazzo knows his team needs to pull out tight games if it's going to be a factor in the toughest division of the Fairfield County Basketball League. He believes games like Sunday's 50-48 victory over Da Fam of New Haven can help. Danesha Gardner scored on a layup with 9.2 seconds left, and Mallory Rochefort grabbed two big offensive rebounds in the final seconds to help Norwalk win the Norwalk Girls Basketball Association Holiday Tournament championship game at Ben Franklin School. Kayla Croswell scored 14 points and Josie Williams added 10…

by Tom Renner

01/03/2011

Westport, CT

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Westport PAL 7th-Graders Win Norwalk Tourney The Westport PAL seventh-grade boys basketball team can be a handful for opponents inside or outside. That was the case during the Norwalk Girls Basketball Association Holiday Tournament, which Westport won Sunday with a 55-40 triumph over Shelton in the championship game at Ben Franklin School. "It gives us more balance if we can score inside and outside as we go into the rest of the season,'' Westport coach Shuan Malone said. "We can be a pretty tough team to defend." Adam Friedman scored 18 points, including 12 in the second half, and Westport connected on 10 3-pointers to pull away fr…

by Tom Renner

01/03/2011

Westport, CT

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Westport Teen Skates Great in U.S. Hockey Program Michael Paliotta made the difficult decision to leave Westport and further his sports career by playing for the U.S.A. Hockey National Team Development Program in Michigan. With 16 months of hindsight and perspective, the defenseman believes he made the right choice. "It has been an unbelievable experience,'' says Michael, whose teammates include Stamford's Ryan Haggerty, a former Trinity Catholic star and a former teammate on the Mid-Fairfield club teams. "I'm thrilled that I made the decision to go there." Paliotta picked up hockey as a student at Fairfield Country Day School and played y…

by Tom Renner

01/03/2011

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